Category: Economics

Yesterday digital currency Dogecoin celebrated its first anniversary. The genesis block of the coin, originally intended as a joke, was mined on December 8, 2013. One year later, Dogecoin is still among the biggest cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization and also still the second most popular cryptocurrency …

When Bitcoin was created, it was built on blockchain technology. All Bitcoin transactions are validated by so-called miners, in blocks that contain all new transactions since the previously validated block.

Just one week after it was confirmed that Google would acquire game-streaming service Twitch in a deal worth $1 billion, Twitch announced that it was partnering up with payment services company Xsolla.